“The award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Annie Ernaux is a setback for the global fight against anti-Semitism and misanthropy,” says Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
He cannot and does not want to judge the literary work of the Frenchwoman, but the effect of the award goes far beyond the professional world, according to Schuster. Ernaux is accused of being close to the BDS movement. BDS stands for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions”. This is aimed, among other things, at goods from Israel and cooperation in culture and science. Shortly after the Nobel Committee’s announcement last Thursday, allegations of anti-Semitism against the author were made in the Israeli press. The 82-year-old herself did not comment on this.
Among other things, Ernaux called for a boycott of the “France-Israel” cultural season in 2018 together with 80 cultural and artistic workers, including the recently deceased filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and in 2019 for a boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv.
Source: Nachrichten
